A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge
by William Allen White
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This book, which was first published in 1938, began as a biography of Calvin Coolidge, but author William Allen White found early in his task that he was writing the story of the growth and rise of economic America from the seventies until the crash of the Coolidge bull market in the autumn of 1929. In this story of an era in American life, the figure of Calvin Coolidge, a curious reversion to an old type, stands out in contrast to the vivid color of a gorgeous epoch. The history of the show more Coolidge bull market in detail from 1921, when Coolidge came to Washington as Vice President, until 1929, when he left Washington and public life, had not been written before. As that market boomed, Calvin Coolidge as President, having all the virtues needed for another day, moved through the turmoil of the times earnestly, honestly, courageously trying to understand his country's economic development and to act upon his understanding of a movement that baffled him and left him futile. Mr. White talked to hundreds of people who knew and were associated with President Coolidge in those days. Cabinet members, friends, White House associates, reporters, business men, big and little; and his story throws a new light upon the inside of the White House, and upon the President through the years. show lessTags
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328. A Puritan in Babylon The Story of Calvin Coolidge, by William Allen White (read 5 May 1947) While reading this book a comment I made in my diary reads thusly: "Coolidge was a stupid ass. The book is very interesting in its details on politics of the time. I like the book."
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William Allen White, Journalist and author, was born February 10, 1868 in Emporia, Kansas and died January 29, 1944 in Emporia, Kansas. White attended the College of Emporia and the University of Kansas. He worked as an editorial writer for the Kansas City Star. Shortly after his marriage to Sally Moss Lindsay the couple moved to Emporia in 1895 show more and White bought the Emporia Gazette. Here he would earn the nickname "The Sage of Emporia." White's editorial "To an Anxious Friend," a statement for free speech, earned him the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. White died January 29, 1944, in Emporia, after completing a chapter in his autobiography. William Lindsay completed his father's autobiography, which earned his second Pulitzer Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Calvin Coolidge
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- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 973.91 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- World Wars and Depression Era (1901-1953)
- LCC
- E792 .W577 — History of the United States United States Twentieth century 1919-1933. Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era. "The Coolidge's administration, August 2, 1923-1929
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